HAVING subtitles (and few random questions)

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HAVING subtitles (and few random questions)

Postby Stuubo » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:09 pm

Cheers for you, good people of a-m-v.org!

Few months ago I decided to start making AMV's again (I did them some years ago with downloaded material. :oops: They all sucked, and luckily never made their way to internet. However, this time was good tutorial for making amv's) as my love for anime was reborn. Now as I am few years older and wiser, I believe that I'll be good enough to start seriously making amv's.

Currently I've been buying DVD's across my lil' country in north and planning my future amv's carefully. However, I have some questions:

1: Few years ago I used Pinnacle Studio 9 for editing amv's, but I understood that now when my ambition and plans has evolved for much higher stage than before and Pinnacle has become way too primitive program. So I need a new one that can do all sorts of visual effects (well even WMM has visual effects but I think that you understand what I mean... Quite much of them! Atleat more than Pinnacle & WMM...), and I can have multiple video clips at same time, in a way that they don't overlap! I can make scenes to be in screen at same time even with WMM, just having slow change from scene A to scene B. Or with Pinnacle (though I haven't tested this) by putting same starting time for scenes, but as I said again, I don't want scenes to overlap!

For example, clip one fills downleft corner (lets decide that it is a kiss scene), and in upright corner of screen there goes other clips at same time (in which there could be clips where kissing characters A & B are together or something like that, this is just quick example).

What programs can do this kind of more evolved editing job? Oh, and I can't afford Premiere, After Effects and certainly not Final cut! (it cost 1285 euros or something... ) so I need cheaper one. You have any ideas for program?

Oh, and is there way to rip a clip from DVD and HAVE subtitles on it. They seem to be separate files. (I believe SUB files are subtitles...) And I won't use frapp because it doesn't capture voice and video quality is bad. I want to use such scene as intro for one AMV, and I hate english dub, so I want have japanese audio and english sub for this scene. How can I do this?

I'll ask other questions if I'll have some in this topic

Thanks for your help, it is appreciated :)

Oh, and sorry for my bad english :oops:
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Postby Jayn_Newell » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:22 pm

Why do you want subtitles on your clips? (And you're right, it usually is a seperate file, although sometimes it's part of the video--this is usually seen as a Very Bad Thing around here). There's always the option to add them back in yourself, which should be pretty trivial to do.
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Postby CodeZTM » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:38 pm

Actually, sometimes subtitles are a good thing. A beautiful example would be translating japanese music. The best one I have ever been abel to find would be Devil_Shin's Redemption

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=112351 Check it out if you are going to use subtitles.
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Postby Willen » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:46 am

You could add them in yourself. Most editing programs have a function for doing this.
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Postby Shazzy » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:18 am

About your software question...are you on a Windows machine? You mentioned Final Cut, which is Mac-only, so it's a little unclear.
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Postby Stuubo » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:12 am

shazzy wrote:About your software question...are you on a Windows machine? You mentioned Final Cut, which is Mac-only, so it's a little unclear.


It is mac only? Oh, I didn't know that. I have Wndows XP Pro :)

Well, I've been wondering too if it would be smart to put subtitles by myself, and it looks like that it is the only option now...

And why I want subtitles? Of course I am not going to use subtitled clips in the amv itself (duh), but I want to use a scene from anime as intro for AMV. And since I can't stand for dubbed versions, I have to put subtitles for that "intro clip".

Anyway, I'll propably do subtitles by myself, so now I am only looking for new software. As I said above, Pinnacle is way too primitive :)

Btw, I can't find edit function. :?
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